“…That same year, the state of Paraná was the second-largest milk producer in Brazil, contributing approximately 14.1% of the national production, according to Municipal Livestock Production (Produção da Pecuária Municipal -PPM) data, from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística -IBGE). In the state of Paraná, there has been great technological development in milk production (Bazotti, Nazareno, & Sugamosto, 2012;Ferrazza, Lopes, de Moraes, & Pascoti Bruhn, 2015;Parré, Bánkuti, & Zanmaria, 2011). This is associated with organizational technical factors, such as collaboration between teaching, research and extension institutions, in addition to credit associations, the use of specialized labor, the selection of a herd with greater productivity and an active cooperative structure (Passetti, Eiras, Gomes, Santos, & Prado, 2016).…”